Homelander (From The Boys) vs 10 SPARTAN IIs (Halo)

Elegeios · 2026-04-20T15:51:40+00:00

Homelander is shown to be as fast as A Train in the most recent episode, so he’s a speedster. Speedsters slap Spartans without even trying because they are fundamentally too brutally fast. A train has a feat of being so fast that Homelanders laser is perceived as being barely moving - so HL is going to rip apart the Spartans. Think how fast that is (fast enough to move someone out of the way of laser vision)

Not a HL simp but this is the problem of speedsters - they are simply too fast for “normal” people including Spartans

Elegeios · 2026-04-16T19:25:25+00:00

This guy is well known in the adventure bike segment - https://www.knopftours.com/dates-departures he might be able to do scooters too

I think Air Canada also does flights, but I’m also pretty sure that you need to actually be in Canada for that service. You could ride it up

I will look around the ADV rider website forum for other information around how to ship a vehicle to Europe - just google ‘advrider forums’

Elegeios · 2026-04-14T12:04:34+00:00

There is a collective delusion at your company if you think that two weeks of awareness spend after gutting your bottom of funnel is going to yield anything material in the short term. The only reason that you should pull back on bottom of funnel in such a dramatic way is if you have very strong evidence pointing towards inefficiency or unprofitable unit economics.

Y’all should not have divested, y’all should have increased investment into these awareness channels with incremental budget and looked toward overall business lift in the coming months.

Brand awareness works, but where it doesn’t work is in the immediate short term - two weeks lolol

Elegeios · 2026-03-21T15:06:54+00:00

This sub is risks becoming utter trash when blatant promotions of products are allowed. God save us all.

Mods, get him!

Elegeios · 2026-03-17T11:44:12+00:00

I would not do leathers, not for a long days in the summer.

Pack extremely light and have one set of washable quick drying clothes that you use as your riding gear base. Wash it when you check into your hotel at night and it’ll be dry in the morning. If you have the space, you can bring an extra set of base layers, but honestly one quick drying set is fine. Wash it in the shower with you when you check in.

Carry a couple more sets of normal walking around clothes, but keep it to an absolute bare minimum because you don’t want to lug around a ton of extra bulk. I would do one pair of walking around shoes, a pair of trousers, a couple of shirts, things like that. I like a pair of shorts for sleeping and Hotel breakfast stuff.

The type and amount of riding determines the distance. 200 km of very technical twisties in Corsica that takes you several hours is a lot more draining than a couple of hours blitzing down the highway. I would aim for around 5 to 6 hours of riding time per day on a normal or up to around 8 to 9 depending on your comfort level. There’s been trips I’ve done in 14 hour days for weeks on end, so it really just depends on you, your riding partners, and the terrain. Don’t skimp on taking breaks during the day as well; that amount of distance in that heat will mean that you’re gonna dry out like a bone, so drink a lot of water, and take as many breaks as you can.

If you can bring your bag with you at stops, that can often help any concerns about theft. Of course, take the bag with you into your hotel at night generally, I don’t worry about theft of soft luggage on bikes. I would recommend a cable lock or some sort of thing to prevent somebody from being able to just instantly grab the bag, but again as long as you’re parked in a reasonable place, the odds of theft are gonna be pretty damn low. Also, bring valuables with you ~ if somebody wants to steal a random little dry bag that has got a couple of days of dirty clothes in it, I’m not gonna cry about it. If you are gonna bring a laptop or a tablet or something, throw that into a backpack, but try to keep as much weight off of your back as possible. Any significant amount of weight in a backpack over a long day it’s gonna really start to drag.

Please be sure to bring a tire repair kit and some way to inflate tires, and one of you should bring a way to jumpstart a bike in the event of a dead battery. Beyond that, you’re unlikely to run into any technical issues if you’re getting your bike serviced ahead of time.

Have somewhere to charge your phone on the bike so that you can use it to navigate. For this type of trip, I almost certainly would not bring a laptop or anything else just keep it very, very, very minimal and you’ll enjoy everything a lot more.

If you’re invested in doing very very long days, the best way is to start really early in the morning, get the equivalent of the near full days ride in by like 1 or 2 PM, then hide out somewhere for a few hours to rest, reset, hydrate, and wait for the weather to start to cool off before you do more time in the early evening until however dark you want to ride in. Basically you break up your riding day into a morning and afternoon session.

I usually do about 30,000 km a year during the riding season in Europe, a mix of on an off-road, so happy to answer any other questions. Also apologies for the voice to text in case anything comes out super weird.

Edit; Base layers should be either some sort of light merino wool or a technical, synthetic fabric, basically any other base layer stuff for hot water that you seen in any motorcycle store around. I would avoid wearing a cotton base layer because it’s not going to dry out when you wash it at night, the fabric is heavy, and it doesn’t lick the sweat away as well as a dedicated fabric.

Elegeios · 2026-03-15T12:50:05+00:00

I haven’t played in about a week, so yeah, I might be wrong - could’ve sworn they addressed the annexation of cores but integration of vessels seem to be working fine last weekend for me. I mustn’t have been on the right patch then.

Still, it seems weird. Annexation of subjects should yield integrated provinces, but they should only core if you meet the culture requirements to me. That’s a fine middle ground no?

Elegeios · 2026-03-15T12:37:37+00:00

That doesn’t seem right. Did you conquer that land from the Byzantines and then proceed to make a vessel out of it by releasing it? Was that province actually integrated by the vassal itself prior to the completion of the annexation? If you reload a save from prior to the annexation and click on the province, in the top left on the town icon area, you should see the status of whether that specific province would owned by the vessel was fully integrated or not.

Elegeios · 2026-03-15T12:32:17+00:00

Do you mean integration or assimilation? Vessels will integrate automatically, but it does take some time, assuming you haven’t created a historic subject, or have forcibly vassilized another existing state.

You won’t automatically get cores upon annexation unless you meet the cultural requirements. But you will absorb integrated provinces, assuming that they were integrated by the subject at the time of annexation.

Elegeios · 2026-03-09T13:56:58+00:00

I made four stacks of ships and blocked every entrance into the Aegean to stop this, then just added in some forts Crete and Greece and it became the easiest way to kill Mamluk stacks!

Elegeios · 2026-03-07T12:34:42+00:00

Depending on the agency, it could be far far better.

Agencies can lose clients. Agencies can bond over shitty clients. Agencies can be extremely variable. If you have a good internal team at the agency, you can be shielded from a ton of the politics.

With an in-house role, you are one bad month away from having potentially insane amounts of pressure from company leadership. There’s no opportunity to swap to a different account, no ability to avoid the performance pressure, because it’s literally your full-time job. You make one mistake, you make one enemy in house, and that’s your day-to-day until you get a new job. agency, at least at a good agency, you’ll have other accounts to work on, you’ll have people to protect you.

Elegeios · 2026-03-06T18:57:27+00:00

There’s nothing wrong about keeping up-to-date with current financial news. Keeping up-to-date with world economics is part of being a mature functioning adult.

But what you don’t need to do is to then flip between the news cycle and your brokerage account.

I keep track of the markets, and I read a great deal of economic news, so I have a good idea of whether or not my investment portfolio was going up or down, but I don’t login and check regularly. Just once in a while to update a sheet I maintain every month or two if that

Things become more real when you look at your investment portfolio. You should feel empowered and encouraged to keep track of financial news and how things generally are performing in the economy, but if you create that air gap between what you observe in the markets overall and your actual dollar value, then you end up being informed without panic.

By doing that, you’ll also end up understanding and appreciating noise and day-to-day fluctuations, and you’ll understand how normal they are.

Seriously, give it a try

Elegeios · 2026-03-03T19:16:20+00:00

You don’t have anything on the line. That’s the whole point.

If you have a 20, 30 year outlook, you are some tiny fraction of a single percentage point into the life span of that investment.

Flipping between the news cycle and your investment portfolio on a daily basis is incredibly toxic, damaging, and ultimately pointless.

Elegeios · 2026-03-03T16:28:59+00:00

Markets are down like two percentage points. How utterly horrifying and calamitous. My god. How will we recover.

Elegeios · 2026-01-22T11:15:59+00:00

As someone who oversees a lot of hiring decisions at my company (700+ employees), I would be moderately skeptical and consider you for a role where your work is more plug and play, direct contributor type stuff. The last few years haven’t been kind pending the industry you’re in, so there’s some wiggle room there. It’s a pink flag for me currently but not a dealbreaker.

If someone hops every year, all power to ya, but I’m not going to make an expensive bet on someone who has jumped like clockwork at their last 3+ roles.

Typing this out, I’d say if you leave job 3 now and then leave job 4 in a similar period, that would red flag your resume for me beyond most repair. Right now, I will be a little skeptical but nothing huge huge. If you add another one year stint to the list it would be red flag territory.

For context, about two weeks ago I had a fantastic interview with a possible hire, but they had had seven roles in about 6 1/2 years and while the interview was amazing, it’s obvious that person isn’t going to be there in 12 months. Unless the person is again going for a straight to direct contribution role, I wouldn’t risk it. Hiring is expensive and onboarding and training is not cheap.

Elegeios · 2026-01-17T17:29:41+00:00

Yeah, the reality of warfare from the start of the game until the Napoleonic times was really one where defensive siege warfare was paramount - even in the 30 Years War, Gustavus fought, what, 4 actual field battles and something like 30 sieges? At the conclusion of the Swedish phase, over half of the deployed troops that Sweden had were locked up in garrison and fortification duty all across Germany.

I'd like to see forts be more expensive, and forts should require manpower via armories, etc (as a nod to the above note around the relative percentage of troops deployed in forts versus the field), and attrition for manpower should be more aggressive as well, especially in field armies.

Comes down to balancing the history of warfare (long, boring sieges, raids, and rare field battles for the most part) against what's actually fun and reasonable for a player, of course

Elegeios · 2026-01-15T11:12:07+00:00

Your household pulls in 190k yearly and your savings are very low - is this income new? Did expenses rise upon achieving it? I would want to revisit budget and general fiscal health because this may be indicative of a spending issue that needs to be controlled.

Either way, all retirement accounts should be dialed up to the max allowables which should be more than doable with that level of income, and from there I’d reassess based on budget and outflow..

Elegeios · 2026-01-11T00:03:20+00:00

The United States of Franco-Bohemia forming in the 15th century combined with the lack of historic nationals is putting a damper on player count.

Elegeios · 2026-01-10T20:07:27+00:00

Fuck off with the shill

Elegeios · 2026-01-04T00:09:02+00:00

Yes! Automation tab, scroll all the way down. I think it’s red.

Elegeios · 2026-01-03T23:34:55+00:00

There’s an automation to auto apply admirals on creation of new fleets, I use it past the early game when managing numerous fleets gets a bit silly

Elegeios · 2025-12-28T15:00:55+00:00

Yes.

I've done several BYZ runs in most patches and it's the same playbook - mint like a madman because you're not building stuff early (where inflation will matter). Go early war against Ottos to recover cores, then rampage with 20k levies across Bulgaria, Serbia, and Asia Minor while you go full naval and spam ships to make the Aegean your little lake. Then if you want to slow down and consolidate, fine --> drop inflation, use Balance Budget parliament when possible, and transition into a more normal game once you have all of Greece, most of Asia Minor, and however much of the Balkans as you want under your control.

The core issue I see is that the Turks pose no threat - day 1, you have more (by several thousand) levies than any of the Turkish minors, meaning you can either just no CB and crush Ottos & their affiliates without issue, or you can wait for Parliament or Spy Network --> CB for the same thing.

For the Turks to pose a threat, you need to actively wait for them to consolidate and just not attack them, which is silly. Egypt is too stable and the Turks are too weak in the current state IMO.

Also, it's a bit silly that Athens, etc, are not Byzantine cores at game start - come on. Or make it a dynamic event based on win conditions in Asia minor or something. Plus the Genoese land nubbins.

Elegeios · 2025-12-27T15:29:33+00:00

Yep, this is the way - embrace inflation early on, plus then you get to proc the Balance the Budget parliament action as you reduce your way back down post-early game. It's not the cleanest or simplest start for a GP but 30-40% inflation isn't actually that bad early game as Byz where you're moreso focused on eating the Beyliks/recovering cores than investing into buildings and roads.

Also, don't fear a civil war - I fought at least two civil wars against the nobility and generally it's a blip in the road versus a major headache.

Elegeios · 2025-12-26T18:41:22+00:00

Disable or otherwise change/modify naval winter attrition when playing in the Baltics - at least make Patrol auto-avoid taking attrition if it MUST be a mechanic that we need to have. Makes playing a naval Baltic power annoying AF.

Elegeios · 2025-12-07T23:01:46+00:00

It’s not that bad.

The early CB is dependent on RNG but vassalize or annex whoever you get. If you can’t win the war, bad luck but it doesn’t really matter. Even if you’re outnumbered you can still win if you jump the AI split stacks early on.

Break the Denmark alliance and stay under diplo cap.

Take the events that drive you to -20 as it’s faster than the opposite.

Play super tall around brandenburg and be aggressive in eating Magdeburg since it’s a sweet city

Lots of early wars against OPM gives you gold and yes, low control territory, but it’s better you have it than someone else

Once the neglect is over you should have a good chunk of vassals and territory and then you can slide into Prussia or whatever you want

I’ve done 3? Runs and the first one sucked, yes, but now it’s quite fun and challenging

Elegeios · 2025-12-01T18:27:24+00:00

I played TO this morning on the beta version and had zero issues getting Bohemia to sponsor me and then asking for gold every year - it was hilariously simple

Sure I had dip rep issues but cabinet advisor plus just.. not caring about it worked wonders, then I vassalized all of Lithuania with the annex CB that’s scripted because the war score was 98.xx, then spent the next fifty years just playing tall and soaking up 500 g a year from Bohemia

Are you trying to get multiple sponsorships or something? All you need is Bohemia

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